One thing I really disagree with in a lot of the blogs I read is the reasons for terrorism. Religion rarely has anything to do with killing people. Don't get me wrong. Religion is great for motivating low level troops and public propaganda. It's a really stupid reason to spend large chunks of your resources and thousands of lives. Osama wasn't interested in religion, although he certainly played lip service to it. He was interested in the huge inequities in his native land and the oppressed people of Palestine. Say what you will about horrible things done to the Jews, they've done most of those things to the Palestinians as well. There are no clean hands in that mess.
Time and again religion has been used to cloak the true reasons for war. If you really want to know why wars happen, follow the money.
Don't believe me? Look at the crusades. Sure, religion was used as the excuse but land for generating income was the real goal.
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